My Heart Is Like A Withered Nut!

MY heart is like a withered nut, Rattling within its hollow shell; You cannot ope my breast, and put Any thing fresh with it to dwell. The hopes and dreams that filled it when Life's spring of glory met my view, Are gone! and ne'er with joy or pain That shrunken heart shall swell anew.

My heart is like a withered nut; Once it was soft to every touch, But now 'tis stern and closely shut;-- I would not have to plead with such. Each light-toned voice once cleared my brow, Each gentle breeze once shook the tree Where hung the sun-lit ...

An Emblem Of Life

Oh! Life is like the summer rill, where weary daylight dies;We long for morn to rise again, and blush along the skies:For dull and dark that stream appears, whose waters in the day,All glad, in conscious sunniness, went dancing on their way.But when the glorious sun hath 'woke, and look'd upon the earth,And over hill and dale there float the sounds of human mirth;We sigh to see day hath not brought its perfect light to all,For with the sunshine on those waves, the silent shadows fa